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Profiles In EccentricityBenjamin Franklin Part 1: Reluctant RascalThis week Matt shows the boys the early years of Benjamin Franklin and how his devotion to publishing, writing, debate and philosophy leads to a desire to create organizations and societies that center on the distribution of information and even the formation of American militia!
2025-04-241h 22Profiles In EccentricityPervert Potluck 5: Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Sean na Sagart, The Old Leatherman, Carl BarksThis week the lads are joined by Laura Crawford for the ancient tradition of the story swap! Aaron has a Francophile African cannibal dictator, Johnboy has a priest-slaughtering Irish bounty hunter, Matt has the mysterious-yet-reassuring Leatherman and Laura has the man who secretly created revered Donald Duck comics that Walt Diz took credit for!
2025-04-101h 40Profiles In EccentricityThe After Dark Bandits: Doug and Peter MorganThis week Matt brings us the tale of twin armed robbers who grew up in a life of crime before taking on the law themselves before the war amongst each other brings their spree to an end and extends beyond!
2025-04-031h 19Profiles In EccentricityFrom The Vault: Michael Malloy: Rasputin Of The BronxWe had to take this week off, but we'll be back next week with some grand foolishness. Until then: This episode John shares the tale of the man who would not die, unwittingly surviving as many as five separate attempts on his life by a collective of five of his friends. Matt tells the story of a man who weaned himself off of a self love practice involving nutting super hard and often. Plus, Aaron tells of the meth fueled couple that threw a death and sex "parde" ending in one fatality! This episode brought to you...
2025-03-2054 minProfiles In EccentricityCivil War Cinema Part 2: Kim Jong-Il, Choi Eun-Hee, Shin Sang-OkThis week Matt brings the lads the thrilling conclusion of an impossibly obscure cinema saga! Kim Jong-il holds the stars of South Korea film royalty in captivity in a bid to boost the silver screen output of the most sinister regime on earth, while our estranged stars dream of an escape! What happens next?? Be forewarned: harsh descriptions of prison torture contained herein!
2025-03-131h 47Profiles In EccentricityCivil War Cinema: Kim Jong-Il, Choi Eun-Hee and Shin Sang-OkThis week Matt brings the first part of the history of film on BOTH sides of the demilitarized zone in Korea! We hear the struggle of South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee and her oddball producer husband Shin Sang-ok and how their meteoric rise in cinema success led them to catch the eye of a secret cinephile - Kim Jong-il??
2025-03-061h 20Profiles In EccentricityPinhead Potluck: Stupid F*cking IdiotsThis week the boys return with three tales of morons! A-A-Ron brings the miserable miser who hid his wealth in literal feces and ate tainted meat! Matt has the cult who embraced castration via scriptural misinterpretation! John has Russia's empire-ending, catastrophic naval expedition!
2025-02-061h 23Profiles In EccentricityStorm Chasers Part 2: Corporal John Park Finley and Ted FujitaThis week Matt throws us back into the storm with a savagely harrowing tale of a tornado made of fire in Wisconsin! Then we meet the next generation of experts, Corporal John Park Finley and Ted Fujita and discover new ways of looking at devastating storms!
2025-01-091h 18Profiles In EccentricityStorm Chasers Part 1: James Espy and William RedfieldThis week Matt treats the lads to the story of America's first tornado chasers from Ben Franklin through the first meteorologists - who's overblown egos and theoretical stubbornness revolted the scientific community! Along the way we get into the science of storms and the awe-inspiring violence and power of the tornado!
2025-01-021h 13Profiles In EccentricityFrom The Vault: Pervert PotluckDropping an old favorite on Xmas. From 2019: This week on Profiles each lad once again brings a wee bit for a 3 way love fest! Aaron tells of a 19th century prostitute who used steak creatively. John meditates on cosmonaut tragedy and sacrifice and Matt brings us to the island that cocaine changed dramatically!
2024-12-251h 23Profiles In EccentricityBill Veeck Part 2: Take Me OutThis week Matt concludes the saga of the sensational promoter Bill Veeck!Amid the myriad squabbles with the MLB and ownership of several teams, we discover the touching charitable nature of the man, his responsibility for several long-lasting baseball traditions and one famous episode of a dwarf at-bat!
2024-11-072h 07Profiles In EccentricityBill Veeck: Flamboyantly ForwardThis week Matt treats the lads to the first half of the saga of the baseball innovator, promoter and owner who consulted fans, created bizarre promotional techniques and pioneered integration in the era of the Second World War!
2024-10-312h 09Profiles In EccentricityABA: The Rogue League That Rewrote BasketballThis week Matt dives into the upstart basketball league that challenged the NBA to the point that it could no longer be ignored! The American Basketball Association brought fistfights, rule changes with long lasting consequences, pageantry and an entrepreneurial daring that brought us none other than Doctor J!
2024-10-102h 51Profiles In EccentricityMarchesa Casati: Millionaire MuseThis week Matt regales the boys with the legacy of heiress Marchesa Casati, whose style, charisma, wealth and pomp made artists and high society fear and fawn over her exploits with sex, drugs, the occult and exotic animals!
2024-08-012h 09Profiles In EccentricityHarsh River: The Saga of the 19th century Mississippi RiverThis week Matt profiles a time and place! The Mississippi River in the early 1800s takes in crime, geological aberrations, natural disasters and local politics in fascinating ways and identifies river folk as their own unique breed!
2024-07-042h 29Profiles In EccentricityThe Panczko Brothers: Crime And IngenuityThis week Matt shares the story of three Polish American boys- Butch, Pops and Peanuts -who grew up poor in Chicago, stealing food to survive and later went on to be responsible for some of the largest robberies in American history with endless arrests, schemes, bribes, chases, prison terms, bullet wounds, and heists in between!
2024-06-212h 35Profiles In EccentricityEverybody Hates This Guy: Charles J. GuiteauThis week Matt tells the lads about the delusional, lazy, universally-loathed narcissist who failed his way through several industries before landing in Republican politics - failing at that as well - and trying to finally attain success as the assassin of President Garfield!
2024-05-161h 35Profiles In EccentricityThe Death Mask Murder: Andrew Crispo Part 2In the finale of Matt's Crispo saga, we see drug paranoia mixed with the heights of access, sycophantic sadists and power play into cruel sexual fantasies that lead to a dark crime that bears little justice and darker implications for society as a whole. Plus Joe Kaye!
2024-05-022h 17Profiles In EccentricityBrothers of The Claw: The Von Erich's ReignThis week Matt tells the boys of the saga of the Von Erich family of wrestlers from their heights in international superstardom to their downfall laden with tragedy chronicled in the motion picture The Iron Claw!
2024-02-292h 03Profiles In EccentricityDid Ya Like That?: Fred Dibnah This week Matt treats the lads to the story of a chimney repairman, or steeplejack, chronicled by the BBC in Northern England who became a national celebrity for his nerve, stubbornness, ingenuity in steam technology and resonance with the public in the shifting times of Britain economically, culturally and politically as a total weirdo!
2024-02-222h 20Profiles In EccentricityBat Masterson: The Best Of The WorstThis week handsome Matt brings us the tale of the legendary Wild West lawman Bat Masterson, from his beginnings in Buffalo hunting to the 20th century boxing ring with the legendary myths of his days as a man on both sides of the law leading to only more questions of right and wrong and power and freedom to befuddle us all!
2024-01-182h 34Profiles In EccentricityCheap Shots: Rick "Elvis" ParkerThis week Matt brings us into the seedy world of professional boxing promotion in the 80's and 90's with a Kenny Powersesque scumbag that corrupted the sport in every way! From bribing and poisoning his own fighters while currying favor with George Foreman and Don King, Rick Parker became so loathesome that it brought on his own murder!
2023-12-212h 29Profiles In Eccentricity(Rerelease) The Chinese Pirate Empress: Ching ShihDue to sickness we have to drop another old favorite this week. From the archives: Aaron regales the boys with the epic tale of the Chinese woman who rose from prostitution to the illicit control of the Eastern seas with a massive fleet of men and vessels at her whim. But first, Matt treats us to the absurdly sad and stupid saga of the Ketchum brothers, the doomed train robbers who idolized Jesse James.
2023-11-301h 23Profiles In EccentricityKit Cavanaugh And Lady Betty: Rogue Irish Women With A Body CountSubbing for the fetching Aaron Pita we are joined by the gorgeous queen Laura Crawford, as Matt brings the tale of one Irish woman who braved endless war to find her husband -IN DRAG - and another who used their filicide to become a legendary executioner!
2023-11-231h 20Profiles In EccentricityTop Tier Madams: Ada and Minna EverleighThis week Matt brings us the story of Ada and Minna Everleigh and into their high class brothel, the Everleigh Club! Kick off a shoe and pour yourself some champagne and hear a story of gangsters, politicians, top tier sex service and a moral outcry that ruined everything!
2023-10-262h 05Profiles In EccentricityAn American Tyrant in Nicaragua: William Walker This week Matt brings us the tale of an unofficial American colonial expedition - then known as a filibuster - and how it's original popularity led to some domestic and foreign legitimacy, before the man at the helm destroyed it all by through greed, tyranny, and enslavement.
2023-10-131h 45Profiles In Eccentricity(Rerelease) Catalina de Erauso: Cross-dressed Nun On The Run ManiacMatt delivers a maniacal portrait of a woman who left the Catholic church in Spain in the 16th century only to become a marauding menace to colonial South America, all while dressed as a man. She escapes death, incredibly meets family members a world away, and achieves glory and worldwide fame before death! Holy shit!
2023-09-141h 15Profiles In EccentricityViciously Organized: Ken "Tokyo Joe" EtoThis week Matt chronicles the life of a Japanese-American who went from the WW2 internment camps on the West coast to the heights of organized crime in Chicago by running gambling operations and executing rivals. But when his own execution goes awry, Joe disassembles The Outfit like one of his victims!
2023-08-311h 21Profiles In EccentricityThe Gifted Cheater: Alvin "Titanic" ThompsonThis week Matt brings us the story of a true American scoundrel whose riverboat card talent and trickery as a youth turned into a career as a hustler of all contests from tossing horseshoes to golfing and beyond! Hanging with and cheating mobsters, marrying girls that are way too young, golf's outlaw origins, it's all here, folks!
2023-08-102h 17Profiles In EccentricityCanada Lee: He Can Do Anything This week Matt brings us the story of Canada Lee, a gifted black child musician who abandoned the violin to become a jockey and then a pro boxer before ultimately turning to acting and becoming a pioneer in the art form alongside Orson Welles!
2023-07-063h 00Profiles In Eccentricity"Crazy" Eddie Antar: Insane PriceThis week Matt treats the lads to the saga of Crazy Eddie, the sales and advertising icon of New York who pioneered as much in advertising as he innovated inventory and tax scams while battling the jealousy within his own family!
2023-06-221h 49Profiles In EccentricityDeath Row Baseball: The Wyoming State Penitentiary All-StarsThis week Matt treats the boys to the story of the prison that started a baseball team full of rapists, thieves and murderers - and one forger - to play for the public while the players awaited execution! But was their star player truly guilty of murder?
2023-05-251h 36Profiles In EccentricityAnother Antarctic Ice Capade: Ernest ShackletonMatt brings the boys another South Pole dance; this time on a mission to cross the continent! Ernest Shackleton and his crew have lost their ship and spiral out into the ocean on ice flows! Now a small crew have decided to brave a passage of ocean to send for help - who will survive and what will be left of them?
2023-05-182h 04Profiles In EccentricityThe Doomed Expedition: Robert Falcon ScottThis week Matt tells the harrowing tale of the British race to reach the South Pole against the Norwegian explorers trying to get there first amid brutal weather conditions, betrayal and very poor decisions made beforehand!
2023-05-112h 26Profiles In EccentricityNazi Nicky Crane: Secretive SkinheadThis week Johnboy treats the lads to the story of a bigoted thug whose reputation was so fearsome that nobody dared challenge him when his double life and hypocrisy were exposed! But first, Matt goes mango mad in Cultural Revolution-era China!
2023-04-201h 29Profiles In EccentricityChemicals and Contraptions: Thomas Midgely Jr.This week Matt treats the lads to the brilliant inventor who was far ahead of his time, inventing freon and leaded gasoline - while suffering horrifying injuries along the way - before his life ends cryptically with yet another invention involved!
2023-04-061h 47Profiles In EccentricityTerry Sawchuk: The Iron WingThis week Matt takes the lads on a tour of the life of a young boy who ignored an arm injury and inadvertently created a motionless wing that would serve as a perfect goalie stick arm as he grew up. Terry Sawchuk would become a hockey legend, but would continue to ignore medical advice to even greater detriment!
2023-03-232h 02Profiles In EccentricityCocaine Bear Revisited!This week, in preparation for COCAINE BEAR in theaters this Friday, we take a look back at Aaron's early profiles of the real story the film is based on, first in Episode 8 and later at a live show! Plus Matt and John's stories from the live show are included - another of which still has tons of cocaine! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-02-2259 minProfiles In EccentricityHarold Nathan Braunhut: Monkey Sea, Monkey What?This week Matt brings us to the bizarre zone of comic book advertising and the strangest mogul of backpage scams like x ray spex, a Jewish man who gravitated to a strange political affiliation and made too much money from his work to be properly called out!
2023-02-091h 35Profiles In EccentricityBeau Monde Bohemian: Caresse CrosbyThis week Matt regales the boys with the story of Caresse Crosby, the wealthy socialite that invented the bra, published works by legendary artists and writers, married drunk morons and entered into a suicide pact with her sleazy, shell-shocked proto-goth husband!
2023-01-262h 00Profiles In EccentricityPervert Potluck 2: Billy "In The Bowl" Davis, William "Every Conceivable Animal" Buckland, Joe "The Animal" Barboza, John "White Devil" WillisThe boys are back with a Christmas gift from each of us to you! John's got a disabled vagrant murderer from Ireland, Aaron's got a British theologian and archaeologist who ate a king's heart, and Matt and John share two different outsider gangsters from New England.
2022-12-151h 44Profiles In EccentricitySexual Socialite: Eve BabitzThis week Matt brings the boys the story of the original groupie who dealt in sex and drugs while serving as a muse and challenger to artists in the 60s, 70s and 80s, chronicling the experience in veiled fiction to wide acclaim!
2022-11-171h 57Profiles In EccentricityPatreon Preview: Your HonorFrom the patreon, a peek at some of the shit we do there: the first instance of John's new game, Aaron has some hot new yelp reviews, Matt has things to blame Jazz for, and then we end with Orson Welles' history lessons.
2022-11-032h 00Profiles In EccentricityThe Four O'Clock Murders: Ervil LeBaron Part 2This week Matt wraps up the saga of the murderous polygamist church leader whose imprisonment and even death couldn't stop the bloodshed when his progeny get a hold of a list of names and take their father's mission to a chilling crescendo!
2022-10-212h 34Profiles In EccentricityBlood Atonement: Ervil LeBaron Part 1This week Matt weaves us through the early history of Mormonism leading to the creation of the offshoot polygamist church of one man that would use murder to eliminate his rivals, including his own brothers! Plus John and Aaron want to play a game...
2022-10-132h 25Profiles In EccentricityDynasty's End: The Dallas Cowboys Part 2This week Matt concludes the saga of the notorious lone star football team where at first a change in leadership can't stop the winning machine but all good things must come to an end!
2022-10-071h 41Profiles In EccentricityWinning And Sinning: The Dallas Cowboys Part 1This week Matt shows us how the Dallas Cowboys began as a middling NFL team before a management shake up and some daring and bizarre roster additions led them to take two superbowls in a row!
2022-09-151h 35Profiles In EccentricityThe Duel: Chaos, Justice or a Means To An End?This week Matt breaks down the history and absurdity of the tradition of dueling from the nobles and elites of the dawn of the ritual in Europe through the more popular version of the ridiculous act of petty pride in the Old West and highlights some of the most preposterous matchups along the way!
2022-07-282h 18Profiles In EccentricityThe World's Big Asshole: Alfred Lawson Part 2This week Matt concludes the saga of the brainstorming pitchman and entrepreneur Alfred Lawson by zeroing in on his final role - that of a cult leader peddling pseudoscience and personal hunches!
2022-06-091h 13Profiles In EccentricityThe World's Big Asshole: Alfred Lawson Part 1This week Matt shares with us the story of a man who buys his own bullshit - but is it with good reason? Alfred Lawson was a successful and unsuccessful baseball player, baseball manager, baseball promoter, publisher, aviator and airplane manufacturer - what will he do next? And has he got something or is he just an asshole?
2022-06-031h 35Profiles In EccentricityPatreon Preview: Harry Tracy AlfredThis week, a preview of what you might find on our Patreon: Matt brings the story of the Greatest Western Outlaw, some dull yahoo, and John introduces his plan to get Johnny Depp's Veleno guitar.
2022-05-261h 27Profiles In EccentricityThe Space Cadet: Edgar MitchellThis week Matt brings us the story of the astronaut who returned from the moon and had an epiphany, began espousing parapsychology, allying himself with Uri Geller and founding an institution exploring the metaphysical.
2022-04-212h 25Profiles In EccentricityThe Scum Bunch: The 1986 New York Mets Part 2This week Matt brings us the epic conclusion of the raunchiest team in baseball's rise to the top. The Mets head to the playoffs, a legendary error occurs during the world series' 6th game and Dwight Gooden watches a parade from his dealer's apartment!
2022-03-171h 29Profiles In EccentricityThe Scum Bunch: The 1986 New York Mets Part 1This week Matt takes on the team in baseball who were at their best at their very worst. In 1986 a crew of vile rogues is assembled, led by Keith Hernandez and, while being flagrantly debauched, lead the season for all but 10 days. Stay tuned for the conclusion next week!
2022-03-101h 35Profiles In EccentricityCastro's Butcher: Herman MarksThis week Matt shares the fascinating saga of the ruddy midwest vagrant who later joined Fidel Castro's guerrilla forces and served in the regime as a famed public executioner before his undoing and mysterious end!
2021-12-162h 10Profiles In EccentricityThe Obscure Genius of Geoffrey PykeThis week Matt treats the lads to the story of a man who escaped prison during World War One, designed ice ships for the allies during the Second World War and in between was a real oddball, inventor and journalist!
2021-10-211h 41Profiles In EccentricityA Better Story Than The Bible: Oscar Kiss MaerthThis week Matt treats the boys to the alternate history of mankind through the eyes of the author who believes we descended from cannibalistic apes whose brains grew too large for our skulls and set us on a path of de-evolution! Plus Aaron treats us to estranged twins on opposite ends of the second world war!
2021-08-272h 18Profiles In EccentricityNed Buntline: Don't Believe Everything That You ReadThis week Matt regales the boys with the story of an upstart prolific writer who crafted stories of heroes and seduced the public and ultimately tried to seize power behind the wall of lies he'd created!
2021-07-292h 52Profiles In EccentricityJoseph Knowles: Nature ManThis week Matt treats the boys to the story of a man who braved the wilderness and slayed creatures in order to survive as a publicity stunt...but was he lying to create hype or actually a survivor of the boonies?
2021-06-172h 17Profiles In EccentricityRube Waddell: Baseball's Pitching SavantThis week Matt brings the story of the hard drinking, hard fishing Hall of Fame pitcher, gator rassler, and brick thrower who tormented both teammates and opponents alike. Get the outfielders off the field!
2021-04-163h 29Profiles In EccentricityA Raft With Its Own Stamps: MicronationsThis week Matt treats the lads to several examples of micronations; small, small, small, countries and the weirdos that start them. Really small countries. Like, smaller than your house. But before that, we get more calls from listeners to the Tiki Adult Theater!
2021-04-022h 14Profiles In EccentricityBears Versus Ideology: The Free Town ProjectThis week Matt tells the lads about the New England hamlet that was flooded by libertarians seeking political refuge from government until bears showed up!
2021-02-122h 57Profiles In EccentricityElizabeth Van Lew: Civil War Secret AgentThis week Matt treats us to the excellent story of a woman during the civil war who collaborated with a network of slaves, northerners and sympathizers to undermine the confederate forces in her local Virginia. She pretends to be a gator, but she's a beaver the whole time!
2021-01-223h 07Profiles In EccentricityPaul English: Willie Nelson's Pimp DrummerThis episode Matt tells us about the surprisingly charming pimp turned drummer who was the enforcer, accountant and band member for the Willie Nelson band!
2020-11-261h 44Profiles In EccentricityThe Eunuch Who Killed Booth: Boston CorbettThis week Matt tells the boys about the religious fanaticism that led a man to cut out his own testicles before fighting for the Union in the Civil War, killing John Wilkes Booth and disappearing after being imprisoned in an asylum!
2020-10-302h 25Profiles In EccentricityLobster Boy: Grady Stiles Jr.This week Johnboy regales the lads with the story of the freak show claw daddy known as Lobster Boy! Hear of the murder he committed and his own killing at the hands of the Human Blockhead! Plus Matt talks about satanic dinosaurs!!
2020-09-261h 25Profiles In EccentricitySex Cult: Franz Creffield and The Bride Of Christ ChurchThis week Matt tells the lads about a well endowed German immigrant and his followers who participated in incestuous orgies and competed to birth the new messiah! Plus, Aaron tells of the Dutch resistance fighter who seduced Nazis to their death!
2020-09-182h 20Profiles In EccentricityPatreon Preview: "Spider-Man's Graduation"Aaron unveils his (WARNING: filthy) Marvel fan fiction. Before that, John drops his favorite scene from Falling Down and Matt gives a history of illegal sodomy in colonial New England. An extra episode every week and deeper dives into the topics of our regular episodes, along with The Chopped Up Jukeboxes: www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity
2020-09-121h 32Profiles In EccentricityThe Last Dance: The Poignant Saga of Doc PomusThis week Matt brings us the story of the polio-sticken blues singer who would create some of the biggest hits of all time and shape popular music while undergoing immense highs and lows in his personal life and crossing paths with a litany of the most famous and bizarre characters of his era. (Correction, the version of "Piney Brown Blues" that Doc heard was probably the 1940 version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSYRA5f3kQQ) Sources: "Lonely Avenue" by Alex Halberstadt "AKA Doc Pomus" by Peter Miller and William Hechter
2020-08-072h 21Profiles In EccentricityNero: Depraved, Decadent, DespisedThis week Johnboy takes on the reviled Roman ruler Nero! The fire and fury, the incest and intrigue, the extravagance and excess of the madman's reign are all here! Plus Matt shows us the film "Diplomat Tricked In Bathroom!"
2020-07-102h 09Profiles In EccentricityForest Joe And The Runaway Slave Guerrilla CampaignThis week Matt tells of the rebel maroons in the early 1820s who fled to the swamps and remote countryside to wage war and free slaves from plantation owners. Before that, Johnboy tells of the legendary regiment in ancient Greece composed entirely of gay couples.
2020-06-191h 26Profiles In EccentricityTycho Brahe: Advanced Astronomer's Bladder BurstThis week Matt opens the episode up with news on a pornographer accused of manslaughter by psychedelics, John tells of a mental disorder where people believe that they are dead and rotting, and Aaron tells the story of the astronomer who vastly improved the map of the heavens, had a pet elk, his own island, and a dwarf jester who predicted the future! Get some!
2020-06-051h 37Profiles In EccentricityBold, Bawdy Babe Helen Worley CromwellThis episode Matt treats us to the saga of the self-made single mother who used her cunning. wits, charm and sexuality to bring her to massive financial success while running brothels and hanging out with gangsters and bank robbers. Matt makes Aaron lose it and Aaron makes John lose it.
2020-05-212h 49Profiles In EccentricityEccentric Media 7: Eat My A**, FratboyHeads up: Matt almost throws up this time, so it's pretty gross! Any clips? Any clips? Eccentric Media returns with public access TV prank calls, anti-drug PSAs, and of course the scariest, weirdest, dumbest porn to ever come screaming out of your nightmares!
2020-05-151h 36Profiles In EccentricityPatreon Preview: North American DaredevilsAn extra episode this week, for all, from the vault: Matt brings the story of Canadian Ken Carter, focus of "The Devil At Your Heels." Ken offhandedly mentions the death of Lucky Teeter, the original American stunt driver, so Matt tells his tale as well.
2020-04-201h 18Profiles In EccentricityFranz Kafka: Neurotic ManiacThis week Matt treats the boys to the life of the famously strange author of The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka. Despondent in relationships and acutely tormented by his father, Kafka is an overly neurotic figure awaiting judgment.
2020-04-162h 22Profiles In EccentricityPatreon Preview: Destroying NYCIn this episode from the Patreon vault: Matt runs down a list of how New York City has been destroyed through popular fiction, but then also some moments in popular non-fiction. Very popular stuff. Natural disasters, man-made disasters, laughable disasters, they're all there. Patreon.com/ProfilesInEccentricity $1 per month gets you an old patreon episode every weekday during quarantine and ad-free regular episodes. $5 per month gets you ALL patreon episodes, including new patreon episodes every weekend, and ad-free regulars. Plus, we have merch and we'll be tossing up extra dumb shit every...
2020-04-061h 31Profiles In EccentricityPatreon Preview: The Year Of The Spies and Filthy Civil War LettersAn old patreon episode for some extra listening this week. Great friend Laura Crawford joins to tell us about The Year Of The Spies. Matt brings some filthy Civil War letters for the whole gang to read. WARNING: Very Explicit. Patreon.com/ProfilesInEccentricity $1 per month gets you an old patreon episode every weekday during quarantine and ad-free regular episodes. $5 per month gets you ALL patreon episodes, including new patreon episodes every weekend, and ad-free regulars. Plus, we have merch and we'll be tossing up extra dumb shit every week.
2020-03-301h 14Profiles In EccentricityThe Earth Is Concave: The Koreshan Unity CultThis episode Matt shares the tale of the cult that believed the world was round, but inside out! Before that, Aaron shares the story of Ignaz Semmelweis, the doctor who popularized washing your fucking hands!!
2020-03-271h 54Profiles In EccentricityFreaks and Geeks: Living Skeletons and Eating MachinesThis week Matt treats the boys to a gallery of geeks, humans exhibited for their ability to eat anything, and the freaks known as living skeletons. Plus, Aaron adds more unkillable soldier tales!
2020-03-121h 21Profiles In EccentricitySnakes, Gibberish, Abduction: Aimee Semple McPhersonThis week Matt treats the boys to the story of the pioneering preacher woman who became a massively influential religious leader in early Los Angeles before she kidnapped herself, dude.
2020-02-052h 00Profiles In EccentricityPatreon Preview: Bad Sex and MUFFWe're off this week, so here's a preview of our patreon: In this chill one, John has a definitional porn title, Matt brings terrible writing, and Aaron closes us out with MUFF (Marvel Universe Fan Fiction). Find more episodes at https://www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity
2020-01-301h 32Profiles In EccentricityBoozing and Boxing: Jimmy "Slats" SlatteryThis week Matt treats us to the life of an early 20th century boxer and booze hound from Buffalo, New York. Jimmy goes from fighting in Madison Square Garden, throwing money from his car window, blowing through toll booths, and fighting guys like Young Stribling and Kid Numbers to living on the streets of the city that worshiped him.
2020-01-082h 15Profiles In Eccentricity"I Have Lived Many Lives" Stanley Clifford WeymanThis week John tells of the early 20th century con man and impersonator Stanley Weyman, who mainly used his false identities not for money, but sheer experience. Then Matt shares the story of a strange miser with a fondness for silver dollars! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-12-111h 01Profiles In EccentricityPatreon Preview: JSG BoggsOn our Patreon we also do extra profiles. In this one Matt drops the tale of Boggs, the man who drew money to barter with. Hear a possible history of money and how one artist's contemporary recreation redefined contemporary definition. Get an extra episode every week: https://www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity
2019-11-271h 51Profiles In EccentricityThe Chinese Pirate Empress: Ching ShihThis week Aaron regales the boys with the epic tale of the Chinese woman who rose from prostitution to the illicit control of the Eastern seas with a massive fleet of men and vessels at her whim. But first, Matt treats us to the absurdly sad and stupid saga of the Ketchum brothers, the doomed train robbers who idolized Jesse James.
2019-11-211h 23Profiles In EccentricitySuch Is Fame: Sam PatchDo you like throwing bear cubs over waterfalls? Leaping into Niagara Falls? Perhaps becoming a folk hero suits you. This week Matt reveals the story of a man who jumped off of tall things to entertain in the 1800s.
2019-10-162h 19Profiles In EccentricityPatreon Preview: Ooze It Or Gooze ItA preview of our patreon page and another of the many different types of episodes available. Matt drops a clip of a guy trolling Headline News. Aaron plays a recruitment in G by R. Kelly. John tells a turd sandwich tale. Matt reveals the Ig Noble Prize winners. It's a very, very stupid episode. https://www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity
2019-10-101h 53Profiles In EccentricityFecal Matter: Brown And Out In Paris And LondonThis week Matt brings the rich history of shit in the streets of 1800s London and Paris, plus John tells the tale of Lord Timothy Dexter, the repeated accidental millionaire moron.
2019-09-111h 49Profiles In EccentricityPatreon Preview: Matt Loves The Show Connections 2Matt's out of town, so this week we give you a preview of our Patreon page: Matt brings another edition of breaking down Connections, the show that shows how one historical invention leads to the next. Aaron and John are morons that draw their own nonsensical nor factual connections. Matt really gifted us with this one. Operation Paper Clip, Pulp Fiction, Lou Ferigno, Napoleon, the gang's all here. Try It Out: https://www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity
2019-09-041h 17Profiles In EccentricityThe Battle Of North HollywoodThis episode John gets all amped up about the armed and armored bank robbers and the shootout with law enforcement that would lead to police carrying semi-automatic weapons. Plus Matt unveils the furniture King Edward VII had made for sex after he let himself go and his body became disgusting.
2019-08-281h 18Profiles In EccentricityAmerica's First And Dumbest Sport: Pedestrianism Part 2This week Matt concludes the history of watching people walk as a sporting event, entertainment's equivalent of eating Corn Flakes to avoid masturbating. We see gender and color barriers get shattered in the sport and old heroes fall and resurrected. John freaks out for a minute.
2019-08-071h 32Profiles In EccentricityAmerica's First And Dumbest Sport: Pedestrianism Part 1This week, Matt takes us to the 1800's and shows us the sport of Pedestrianism, where as many as 80,000 people would crowd around to see men and women walk hundreds of miles around a roller rink.
2019-07-311h 39Profiles In EccentricityMargaret Howe Lovatt: Teaching Dolphins English Through HandjobsThis episode Aaron kicks off with a childhood-era pee-themed clip, Matt follows with a news story about a man with a nine day erection, and John dives into the story of a woman that jerked off dolphins while attempting to teach then to speak in a 1960's NASA-funded experiment! It's the dumbest episode yet!
2019-06-121h 29Profiles In EccentricityHumans With Goat Testicles: John R. Brinkley Part OneThis episode Matt kicks off another two part Profile with the story of faux doctor swindler John R. Brinkley, who convinced early 20th century cucks that the answer to their impotence was goat balls placed within their own balls surgically.
2019-05-291h 42Profiles In EccentricityPatreon Preview: Aaron Explains It All - The TerminatorThis week a preview of a new series on the Profiles Patreon: Aaron breaks down everything about one of his favorite movies, "The Terminator," from Cameron's concept through Arnold's execution. Also, Matt has something really gross. Check out our Patreon for more Aaron Explains and other irregular Profiles episodes. www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity
2019-05-2249 minProfiles In EccentricityPervert Potluck: 3 Strange TalesThis week on Profiles each lad once again brings a wee bit for a 3 way love fest! Aaron tells of a 19th century prostitute who used steak creatively. John meditates on cosmonaut tragedy and sacrifice and Matt brings us to the island that cocaine changed dramatically!
2019-05-151h 24Profiles In EccentricityEd Leedskalnin: The Creep Of Coral CastleThis episode Matt lights the fire by exposing John and Aaron to a new foot fetish sex toy. Then John shares some rumors about the science of swallowing before getting into the story of the little Latvian man who inexplicably built an open air limestone castle, moving millions of pounds alone at night in tribute to a woman who wanted nothing to do with the guy.
2019-05-011h 21Profiles In EccentricityMark "Chopper" Read: Eating A Pack Of Lit Cigarettes and Cutting Off Your EarsThis episode Matt delves into the hilarious and savage criminal underworld inhabited by infamous criminal "Chopper" Read. Get yourself a nice bottle of Ouzo and get ready to lose a few feet of intestine.
2019-04-241h 22
Profiles In EccentricityPorno Samurai KillerThis episode explores themes of testicular smithereening as Aaron tells John and Matt of instances of mass hysteria and John replies with a tale of a low level porn creep that committed heinous crimes against his fellow mopes. Matt makes John lose it real bad.
2018-01-0458 min